Early Deadline: October 31, 2015
Regular Deadline: February 29, 2016
Late Deadline: June 1, 2016

Our MISSION is to discover, promote and give venue to independent filmmakers, not just from the greater New York area, but from other regions of America and abroad.

For 34 years, the Long Island Film Festival has presented high quality film programs and has made a major contribution to the Long Island community by promoting films that are entertaining, educational, thought provoking and enhance the general public's understanding of cinema culture and the humanities.

The Long Island Film Festival is the Longest Running International Film Festival on Long island.

During those 34 years, we have witnessed filmmaking transform itself from a strictly film medium to a highly technological global digital art form with sophisticated software operating on specially configured computers. As a result, there are more filmmakers attempting to break into the film industry. It is those new filmmakers that the Long Island Film Festival seeks to discover.

Our World Lens series focuses on foreign Indie filmmakers that are producing films that are pieces of their culture and set in economic, social, environmental, and political spheres. It is the commitment of the Long Island Film Festival to bring these films to America and present these perspectives to Long Islanders to enlighten and enhance their understanding of the world around us.

Beginning this year, we are holding an online film festival to keep up with technology. We feel that holding the festival at a physical location deprives the filmmakers that live far away from participating and supporting their film. The films selected for the online festival will be viewed on www.longislandfilmfestivalonline.org from July 1, 2016 to July 31, 2016. Viewers of your film we be allowed to vote on your films from all over the world. Filmmakers will also be permitted to accept their awards via Skype before a live audience.